Eddie Vedder Australia 2014

[ridleybradout]

Recommended viewing for anyone who doesn't like/get Amanda Palmer.

http://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palmer_ ... sking.html

I myself find her noble/interesting/annoying at the same time.

[delanoche]

I myself find her noble/interesting/annoying at the same time.

[dimejinky99]

I'm (blissfully) unaware of her.

[bodysnatcher]

I'm (blissfully) unaware of her.

lucky

[Birds in Hell]

I'm (blissfully) unaware of her.

lucky

Indeed.

[Norah]

I myself find her noble/interesting/annoying at the same time.

yeah

[dimejinky99]

I think she's Gaimans wife.
And I know she played a gig on the street here in Dublin.
I've no interest in her based on that blog post alone.

[mastaflatch]

i just thought that Spenno's comment was over-the-top (it purposely was i guess) but even if she's annoying in the way she talks about her ethos, it's still pretty cool and kinda brave of her to go ahead and suggest an alternative way of making/consuming music.

[Norah]

i just thought that Spenno's comment was over-the-top (it purposely was i guess) but even if she's annoying in the way she talks about her ethos, it's still pretty cool and kinda brave of her to go ahead and suggest an alternative way of making/consuming music.

yeah, this

[Birds in Hell]

i just thought that Spenno's comment was over-the-top (it purposely was i guess) but even if she's annoying in the way she talks about her ethos, it's still pretty cool and kinda brave of her to go ahead and suggest an alternative way of making/consuming music.

yeah, this

Ehhhhhhhhh.

*waves hand dismissively*

I have no fundamental problem with either asking your fans to pay you to make your record or go on tour or play for free in your band or gather at a mud pit downstate and sell meth and blowjobs to each other. I wouldn't stoop to doing any of them myself, but horses for courses. The reason I don't appeal to other people in this manner is that all those things can easily pay for themselves, and I value self-sufficiency and independence, even (or especially) from an audience.

If your position is that you aren't able to figure out how to do that, that you are forced by your ignorance into pleading for donations and charity work, you are then publicly admitting you are an idiot, and demonstrably not as good at your profession as Jandek, Moondog, GG Allin, every band ever to go on tour without a slush fund or the kids who play on buckets downtown.

Pretty much everybody on earth has a threshold for how much to indulge an idiot who doesn't know how to conduct herself, and I think Ms Palmer has found her audience's threshold.

[mastaflatch]

who is Steve?

[Strat]

who is Steve?

His name is Steve, and he's your walkin' man

[mastaflatch]

who is Steve?

His name is Steve, and he's your walkin' man

oh yeah, that guy sure knows better then.

[Birds in Hell]

who is Steve?

Sorry, that was probably a little presumptuous on my part - it's a carry-over from my earlier post below linking to the Electrial Audio forum (Steve Albini's forum).

i getcha spenno.

funny she asks for money as a musician, when ya'know, she paid other musicians on her tour with "beer, hugs, and merch"

This guy gets it.

Anyway, this probably remains a pretty good read if you have the time.

[digster]

The biggest BS about Amanda Palmer's notion of paying musicians in 'hugs and beer' was the fact that at certain shows, they did bring in paid musicians. As Palmer put it...

there were cities like new york where [string arranger Jherek Bischoff] –- and everyone in the band –- really wanted to make sure we had a 100% tried-and-true string corps. he didn’t want to bank on possibly risky volunteers that night. chad raines, my guitarist, who’s also in charge of wrangling the horns, agreed on that front as well. so we called our more professional horns and strings friends in new york, and we freed up the budget to pay them. we’re doing that in some cities, and in some cities it’s a total grab-bag of strangers on stage.

it’s very important to me that we clarify that – not everything you see on stage is black and white, and those specific musicians in new york (and in some other cities) who got paid shouldn’t be put in the same category as the volunteers. WE called THEM personally because we had lots of experience with them and knew what we were gonna get … the upshoot? every single city is totally different. sometimes paid. sometimes not. it’s sometimes messy. sometimes not. sometimes slightly risky. and therefore, in my opinion, fun.

So if you're in NYC, you get the pros, but otherwise, I guess you're just shit out of luck.

[mastaflatch]

i still don't get what is so hard to understand about her. people need to fucking relax. throw your hatred at real shitty acts for fuck's sake.

[WtOB?]

i'm really glad he didn't play bugs at my show. i would have been so pissed off.

I can't think of any song by Pearl Jam or Eddie that would piss me off at a concert.

i was in a bad mood at this show and would have been genuinely pissed off. i was pissed off enough when he butchered the cat power song with his clunky guitar playing and inappropriate vocal style.

[gems and rhinestones]

i'm really glad he didn't play bugs at my show. i would have been so pissed off.

I can't think of any song by Pearl Jam or Eddie that would piss me off at a concert.

i was in a bad mood at this show and would have been genuinely pissed off. i was pissed off enough when he butchered the cat power song with his clunky guitar playing and inappropriate vocal style.

Actually that was the best version of that song.

[Heathen]

throw your hatred at real shitty acts for fuck's sake.

I thought that was precisely what was going on

[Mine]

Nobody noticed? Certain Pj Facebook groups are alight cos it seems eds had some work done.